DBWI: No German Mindanao and Spanish Visayas, US gets all of the Philippines

I was thinking what would have been the fate of the Philippines if German and later British and Malaysian Mindanao and Spanish Visayas if they were given to the US like Luzon in the Spanish-American War.

Luzon or rather the Tagalog republic is now 70% Tagalog speaking including the regions 1-3 which have Ibanag, Pangasinense, Kapampangan and Ilocano significant minorities and region 5 which have a Bicol Majority and they have a united identity as Tagalog Nationality tracing to the Katipunan and they are in free association with the United States since the 50's, as I remember the Americans tolerated the remnants Katipunan expelling the Peninsulares and the Pro-Spanish people and the americans even aided them which caused Manila/Intramuros to get emptied out and their capital is in Malolos.

If the Americans acquired German Mindanao and Spanish Visayas would the people of Luzon or Tagalog republic treat the people of German Mindanao and Spanish Visayas as their own people or treat them as their colonies
 
Woulden't this require the Spanish not to sell Mindanao to the Germans in the first place, or some German involvement in the Spainish-American War? The former dosen't seem very likely: Madrid was broke and needed the money to after the post-70 breakdown in relations with France with the Cortes put King Leopold Hohenzollern on the throne and restrictions of selling Spainish securities in the Empire. Napoleon III took the betrayal VERY seriously, and his Liberal ministers coulden't stand the new reforms the Conseratives who came into power in Spain under the robust new monarch, so I doubt you'll generate a new buyer for the islands. The later is more likely though: after all, it has long been speculated it was the talks of selling Porto Rico to the Germans, who wanted a base for a Western Hemisphere flotilla, was what really caused the US to start making such a big stink over the rebels in Cuba, and if the deal had gone through prior to the DOW it would almost inevitably resulted in the US demanding the Germans not militerize the island and drag the Germans into the conflict.

Though, in that case would the Pacific fleet even be able to extract concessions in the East at all?
 
Woulden't this require the Spanish not to sell Mindanao to the Germans in the first place, or some German involvement in the Spainish-American War? The former dosen't seem very likely: Madrid was broke and needed the money to after the post-70 breakdown in relations with France with the Cortes put King Leopold Hohenzollern on the throne and restrictions of selling Spainish securities in the Empire. Napoleon III took the betrayal VERY seriously, and his Liberal ministers coulden't stand the new reforms the Conseratives who came into power in Spain under the robust new monarch, so I doubt you'll generate a new buyer for the islands. The later is more likely though: after all, it has long been speculated it was the talks of selling Porto Rico to the Germans, who wanted a base for a Western Hemisphere flotilla, was what really caused the US to start making such a big stink over the rebels in Cuba, and if the deal had gone through prior to the DOW it would almost inevitably resulted in the US demanding the Germans not militerize the island and drag the Germans into the conflict.

Though, in that case would the Pacific fleet even be able to extract concessions in the East at all?

As I remember Spanish sued Peace with the Americans very fast in 1898 and sold both Luzon(the territory of the Tagalog Republic) and Cuba which are controlled by their own revolutionaries to the Americans which was followed by the Purchase of Mindanao, the Americans I heard are interested in the Mineral deposits of Mindanao..at least after World War 1 it passed to the Brits and did not experience Hitler.

The Spanish and Chinese population during the before the First tagalog republic was dissolved in 1902 and during the early years of in the American rule were expelled and the only chinese who are in the Tagalog Republic are the Taiwanese, majority of the expelled population settled in Spanish Visayas and some in other Spanish colonies, while the Spanish Visayas and Malaysian Mindanao has vibrant Chinese communities.
 
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